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‘Decorating With Plants’: 6 Ideas to Steal from a New Book by Baylor Chapman
Houseplants—like wide-brimmed hats and macrame wall hangings—are back in style. So far in 2019 alone, more than a dozen new books about potted plants have been published. (And we’re only halfway...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Ways to Bring the Outdoors In
Remodelista editors were seeing green (our favorite color here at Gardenista) everywhere this past week—in bathrooms, kitchens, and beyond. Here, 5 ways to help the inside of your home reflect the...
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10 Easy Pieces: Sage Green Outdoor Chairs for the Parisian Garden
I’m known for being color-averse, particularly when it comes to things in and around my home. It’s all white linens and black steel lights and concrete patio furniture. Then I traveled through France...
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Farewell Michelle: Changes at Gardenista
Above: Michelle Slatalla and Josh Quittner at home in Mill Valley. Photo by Matthew Williams. In 2012, we were lucky enough to have Michelle Slatalla join our team as Gardenista’s founding editor in...
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Gardening 101: Everything You Need to Know About Growing Tomatoes
Everybody knows a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable, but do we know why? Horticulturally speaking, the answer is simple. True fruits develop from the ovary in the base of a flower and contain the...
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10 Easy Pieces: Wooden Garden Benches
As much as I like working in my garden, what I really love is watching others work—squirrels furtively ferrying nuts to hideouts, bees on a tight schedule in the lemon tree, ants with plans. A...
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DIY: The 7 Best Natural Mosquito Bite Remedies
I’m a romantic, and so at the risk of facing commenter-wrath, I’m going to say it: The season’s first mosquito bite isn’t such a bad thing. It’s how you earn your summertime stripes, don’t you think?...
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The Garden Decoder: Should You Get a ‘Soil Test’?
Gardening is a lot like parenting. You can follow directions and advice (from this website or that book or some expert) all you want, but you won’t be able to guarantee the results. Sometimes plants...
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Object of Desire: Multicolored Metal Table and Stools from Skagerak
If you’re in the market for outdoor furniture, may we suggest checking out Skagerak? The family-owned Danish design company currently has 16 outdoor furniture collections in a range of styles, but all...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Essentials for Outdoor Entertaining
For their “Summer Kitchens” issue, Remodelista editors revealed the elements of stylish outdoor entertaining. 1. A Pretty Linen Tablecloth Above: No, you don’t need a tablecloth, but adding one makes a...
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Current Obsessions: Summer Sales
Here’s what’s on our radar; a slew of upcoming summer sales, pop-ups, and new design shops: One of our favorite housewares lines—Canvas—is having a sample sale from June 27th to June 30th, from 10am...
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Landscape on a Budget: 13 Ideas for Mown Grass Paths
If you have a small space, a grass path is green enough to telegraph the idea of a rolling lawn. And in a large garden, a mown walkway is a low-cost alternative to an expensive stone or brick path (and...
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Gardening 101: Thistle
Thistle, Cynara, Cirsium, Carduus, Echinops, Onopordum: “Spiky Cousins” It is easy to see why thistles, their foliage bristling with tiny spikes, sometimes get a bad rap. Anyone who has stumbled into a...
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The Summer Living Room: 15 Airy Screened-In Porches
Screened-in porches are making a comeback, a trend we applaud. After years of dwindling popularity, porches are back on young homebuyers’ lists of “Most Wanted” features, according to the National...
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Your First Garden: The Right Watering Method for Your Garden
I had many questions about gardening when we first moved from an apartment in the city into a house with a yard. What plants would do well in our shady garden? Do I need to amend our soil? Where did my...
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Summertime DIY: Pressed Seaweed Prints
As a native Cape Codder, I’ve always been fond of seaweed. So when I ran across designer Karen Robertson’s pressed seaweed DIY on Garden Design, I had to give it a try. Read on for a list of materials...
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Trending on Remodelista: Scandi Colors, Beyond-White Edition
We’re all familiar with the white-on-white palette that’s made Scandi interior design such an international hit. This week, Remodelista editors decided to explore new colors from that part of the...
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What to Do in the Garden in July
In the garden, July is a month with a split personality: We look back wistfully (at the successes of spring) and forward with trepidation (can this garden be saved, to withstand the August heat that’s...
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California Cool: A Photographer’s Ojai Oasis, Inspired by an Iconic Garden in...
Last month, we took a tour of California-based photographer Victoria Pearson’s airy studio-slash-guest house over on Remodelista; now, with summer in full swing, we’re taking a virtual walk through the...
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Mosquito Repellent: 5 Flowers and Herbs to Keep Pests Away
Mosquito repellent plants are garden heroes: colorful flowers and herbs with natural fragrances that chase away buzzing insects even as their perfumes soothe humans. The first step in your plan to...
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